Testing of TRF Blue ARC R12FF

The weather up here has finally allowed me to start testing my 2023 FF chassis – the special Tamiya blue ARC R12FF which I have written about previously.

As is quite normal, the early spring and summer is quite tricky with the weather either too cold and rainy, or way too and warm full of pollen and dust. The track could still do with a proper rinsing of heavy rain, but conditions are still ok for meningful testing.

I will update more at some later stage when I feel I have something to report, but the early running has seen me switch (as planned) from the Tamiya Scirocco to the Bittydesign CA45. As expected, even mounted for maximum realism, the CA45 performs really well, and with it I’m running the car at 1150g race ready weight, which is really noticeable. While the CA45 has some really beautiful details, still it’s no match for a Tamiya bady when it comes to realism when you watch the car on track, so we’ll see if I stick with it or return to Tamiya bodies. I just wish Tamiya would would make some newer proper TCR bodies now…

I have alreay made some improvements to the setup of the R12FF chassis as well, but I’ll return to those in some later post as I get further testing done.

TRF @ Speed King Tour Rd 2 / 2023

What were the TRF factory guys running at Round 2 of the SPEED KING TOUR 2023?

Here you see a zoom in on the TRF420X(R?) of Kiyo Suzuki, and it looks very similar to what they run at the TITC a few months ago.